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EIP-7716

Anti-Correlation Attestation Penalties

Scales penalties for fully-offline validators by the excess of concurrently offline stake over its trailing average

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  1. Draft25 May 2024
  2. Draft29 Sep 2026

Abstract

The decentralization of the validator set is one of the most important properties of Ethereum for credible neutrality and censorship resistance. This EIP scales the attestation penalty of validators that fail to attest as a function of how many other validators failed at the same time. Each slot receives a penalty_factor proportional to the excess of that slot's offline balance over a slow-moving…

Created
25 May 2024
Authors
dapplion, Toni Wahrstätter, Vitalik Buterin, Oisín Kyne
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